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what a year. I didn't think that I could have a better year than I did last year, but pleaides goes and proves me wrong again. This year I met a million more girls who I love, grew to love the ones I already knew all that much more, and had an amazing time while doing it. Last night was the end of the year get together with b-dobbs and all the girls. We went out to dinner and one group sitting at another table kept giving us funny looks. All the frisbee ladies were dressed up. as in, not in jerseys or gym shorts, or sweat pants or tshirts. I think we looked like a bunch of sorority girls, and there's brian sitting in the middle of us, laughing and smiling...it must have looked pretty sketchy. but that's why we love him. We got to meet k-dobbs, too, the younger brother who also is in ultimate. what a great family.
After dinner we went back to lynn and julie's just-rented house where there were 2 chairs, a couch, and a carpeted floor. We did skits for the seniors for all the moments they've had this year ["delaware? I fucking HATE delaware"] and manohman are we going to miss them. Luckily we get Kate Scott back next year, she's kind of a big deal and way awesome to boot. She was trying to convince me to move in with her for the fall, but I can't leave hangomango and jess. I like my room too much :o)
We afterward we made toasts to the past year we've spent with each other. Everyone looks around to see who wants to go first, and brian steps up. "To the day I said 'yes'". I can't imagine this year with a different coach. I kind of upset with jarebear switched over to coaching the guys team, and then when I first saw brian, I didn't know what to think of him - wearing his quilted overalls to watch us at december practices. I didn't have any idea what the coach of Backhoe could possibly want with us, a rebuilding college women's ultimate team. but as he says, "we're going to rebuild all over their asses" and we sure did. we played our hearts out and had so much fun with each other. There's something about a team where new members who have been playing soccer, volleyball, cross country all their lives sit down and say "I've never been on a team where I like every single person. There is not one girl on this team that I wouldn't want to share a car or hotel room with or go out for a night and have fun." There's something special about our girls.
But now it's summertime and people are departing for colorado, alaska, ecuador, cambodia, south korea, and many other places. I'm sorry for the people who I will miss in the fall while they're abroad, and I half-wish that I don't get into my study abroad program so that I can spend another amazing season with the people I love. Here's to a bid to nationals before we graduate, and a kick-ass mix cd to go with it. Sat, Jul. 8th, 2006, 03:34 pm
In a strange turn of events today, I donated blood. like, needles and all. my mom read an article saying the blood bank was the lowest it's been in two years so we popped on out to durham to donate. we got pretty stickers and then realized that since we just walked in, we would have to wait for all the people with appointments and so we left, to come back at 12:30, just a little bit before it would close.
luckily, we were near to a durham harris teeter. one where tyler was training. heeeeeeeeehehe. but after much grocery-aisle stalking and being disappointed at the price of rosemary olive oil bread, my mom and I headed out to kill more time. but then! what's that?? is that...*gasp*...his car????? HOLY CRAP IT IS. funny, how you usually park near where you work. so note-leaving commensed. which was excellent, because it took up more time, so we didn't have to die all day in target.
and then we went back and donated blood! this means I'll finally know what blood type I am. and then I can steal aspen's blood diet book and figure out that everything I'm eating is not good for me ;o) it went well. I started seeing spots as it got toward the end of my donation, and I was about to say something when diana stopped it. I didn't hear it beep, though, so perhaps she cut it short. all the while I was sipping orange juice. on the rocks. it was pretty sweet. then she had me recline more and lay there for a while. after a bit, my mom, who was also donating, said I was looking a lot better. diana didn't tell me that the reason she lay me back was because I was completely white and looking terrible :p but I survived. wheeeeee. I might even do it again.
that's right, folks. it is the dawning of a new era. one in which charliss can tolerate needles for good purposes. crazy.
plus I got done in time to catch tyler on his lunch break. which is really what made me feel better. that and the banana I stole from him :o) Tue, Jul. 4th, 2006, 10:55 pm
this summer
has been fantastic. I like working at the planetarium. I really like all the people, I like what I'm doing [as long as there are no broken thermometers, but the best part about that was it wasn't even that bad], I like the kids for the most part, and I like the ability to know I'm earning money and I have the chance to participate in a lot of cool things once the school year starts up.
went down to the beach to visit tyler and his family on friday after work. looooooots of fun. good people, good food, good weather. just a generally good time. plus, I got to use up some of my glowsticks that I've had forever. no one ever seems in the mood for a glowstick. it's rather sad, actually. but I got to use some of them up! and play with a few baby ghost crabs. so cute. I made one jump through my glowstick bracelet. and after one day out in the water and on the beach I managed to severely sunburn one collar bone right in the place that all straps [bra, tanktop] go across. I'm awesome. and pale. but it was a lot of fun. I love the ocean in small doses.
and after that I relaxed and saw megan and dogsat and we're going to kings dominion on thursdayyyyyyyyyyyyy. road trip after road trip and there are dipndots at the end of this road trip. plus tyler's never been on a rollercoaster. really. what's up with that? ;o) it's all about to be changed.
plus I realized that between housesitting jobs, I'm only going to be at my own house for two weeks or so for the rest of the summer. I'm a little excited about that.
and the week we're spending in the mountains in a cabin with no drinkable water. I love the mountains. I love family vacations as long as they don't involve driving for two weeks with marieke in the car. that was a little bit irritating by the end of it. but a week in the mountains I can do, no trouble. sit outside for a bit, get a bunch of hiking in, maybe a puzzle or two...mmmm.
this is a good week, a good summer, and an all around good time.
if only the humidity would drop.
wiffles spent the night outside last night and when she came in this morning, she had a slug/snail slime trail across her ear. I guess she's a heavy sleeper.
Sun, May. 14th, 2006, 12:44 pm
oh man prom this time around was about a million and a half times more fun than junior year. I kind of had thought yeah, it's prom, whatever. maybe it was that I had a dress I didn't change three times in the half hour before we ate. maybe it was that tyleR looked absolutely stunning. maybe it's that I love his family and I'm getting used to having alex back in the house. or because I saw lots of people I knew and was introduced to even more people I didn't. and katy looked gorgeous. and elena and david were there and it was just lots of fun. and janna and cochran and mr. cooper...and it was a lot of fun. nick alwon mount was there, so were ben jones and alex berry. I just talked to all these people I hadn't seen in forever and who I didn't even talk to in the first place. and ren did look like a giant yellow cupcake :o) haha. and we daaaaaaanced and they played better music, I think, than junior year. I only heard "to the window, to the wall" once, right after we got there and weren't on the dance floor yet. yummmmmmmm. we got prompartyfavors, too. these really pretty champagne glasses with decorative glasswork. pretty much this weekend was amazing. saturday night was amazing. and there will be pictures to come, when I can steal them from tyleR. sweeeeeeeeeet.
and it hailed last night at 4 in the morning and I had to run outside in my new raincoat to save the creeping jasmine we got for my mom for mother's day. it was an adventure. but it was saved and we made her a no-fat breakfast this morning [bruch is more appropriate since we ate at like 11:30] and I woke up really early for someone who went to bed really late and made her a card and I want to get her a gorgeous flower and life is just about perfect right now. Thu, Apr. 27th, 2006, 02:55 pm
Mon, Apr. 24th, 2006, 10:47 pm
six weird things about me.
I like ducks. like, a lot. especially ones that say AFLAC when you squeeze them.
I can listen to the Barenaked Ladies on repeat for days upon days.
I get emotionally attached to my nalgenes.
My favorite smells on people are unscented lotion, after shave, and shaving cream.
I love mango granola.
Every time I back out of our driveway, even if I'm the only person in the car, I'm afraid I'm going to bottom out. I never do.
hop on board if you'd like to, it's a free for all. Sun, Apr. 2nd, 2006, 09:14 am
it's officially all in my head. Sat, Apr. 1st, 2006, 06:33 pm
somehow things have kind of collapsed, and perhaps it's because I'm too tired to keep them up. this morning was fun selling compost bins, telling people why they should get them, talking to people including katherine who lives 5 minutes from franklin street and has seven chickens. I think I might keep doing this, because I really like being able to help out with the community and promoting environmental things. even compost bins. and recycling. they offered me a job saying I could apply and they'd pay me retroactively for today. too bad I needed the service hours.
then I came home and scrubbed all the dirt and sunscreen off of me and I felt pretty in a tshirt and gym shorts and read some ancient art and felt like I was accomplishing things a bit and it was pretty outside but...I don't know. I guess I'm just silly and being unfair, but all the same. I kind of want to go to sleep at 6:30.
I woke up last night completely drenched in sweat even though the air conditioner was already on to drown out the noise of the relay for life. it's been quite a week, to be followed by another busy week and a weekend where I won't be here. at least lab is done, or will be as soon as I write my lab report on the experiment that didn't work.
I guess I'll do that and sleep early and then wake up and make a giant crossword puzzle or two and see where the day gets me. Tue, Mar. 21st, 2006, 11:59 pm
I need to stop procrastinating, and I need to sleep. I've kind of given up on biology tomorrow. it'll come and I'll take it and I'll be done in half an hour and we'll see what I get.
thankfully it wasn't raining tonight, just cold. but you could feel your fingers after running around for a half an hour or so. I feel remarkably good for having not done anything over spring break. well, I biked 30 miles or so. maybe a little less, but who's keeping track? I'm excited for this weekend. it should be a good time, good frisbee, and sun, oh! the sun! I've forgotten what it's like to be able to be outside and warm.
things I need to do before friday
-lab report [check]
-prelab [check]
-start next lab report
-policy memo
-do well on biology? [uh...it's over. so check]
-track workout [check]
-pack
-do laundry
-get cds and sunscreen from home [check]
-think about starting environmental paper [check]
-maybe read some ancient art, since I have a 10 page paper to develop in that.
bring it. then next week comes in house smeminars and discussion groups and all that joyful stuff. and I need to usher again. mmmlike 3 more times. sweetness. we'll see how that goes.
good night good night
yesterday after climbing tyleR and I went and played around on the playground at the community center, with me on the inside of the playstructure and him on the outside. lots o' good clean fun. but what I really wanted to say was that it was so completely awesome when we went down the slide I had these pants that I love but I have a problem with them getting really static-y and sticking to my butt and the back of my legs, well, I didn't think about that. so we get down to the bottom of the plastic slide and I flip over on my stomach and reach out to touch the ground and I send this HUGE BOLT of electricity out through my finger. like I could see a spark. and tyleR could feel it through my hip. it was crazy like whoa. playgrounds are where it's at, though, let me tell you.
I also got some soup for dinner that was too hot and I got a blister on the roof of my mouth. mmm not really a whole lot of fun. but the situation has been alleviated with a breakfast of granola. yum pokey foods.
all that's left between me and spring break is one ancient art class, one lab, one bio class, and one environmental midterm. hurry hurry hurry. VA creeper trail in 8 days. eeeeep Thu, Mar. 2nd, 2006, 09:05 am
t-23 hours
I'm wearing a dress because it's spring and because things felt ohsowrong earlier and now they feel ohsoright and I have on class and lab so I'll have to change anyway and then I get to see the boy who I worry is stressing too much and not believing enough and I get to see him and then we have practice for an hour and we end early and it will be light and then I'm packing and waking up early and flying away never to be heard from again. mmmm well I'll be heard from. that's why cell phones were invented. but I'll see people from science camp who I played ultimate with this summer and they'll be like big and tall and good and I'll still be small and short and sunburned but I'll be in california and it had better not rain Mon, Feb. 13th, 2006, 10:07 pm
is it really too hard to let me have a good sequence of days? saturday was full of loneliness but it was okay by the night and then sunday was good and at least sunny and it was warmer and it snowed and we lost so we got to go home early which was lovely and I went home and got girlscout cookies and saw tyler and slept with floofily poofilies on top of me and she was so cute and...fluffy and it was warm and I wore an extra large Tyler sweatshirt [tyler community college, not tylertyler, though it was bought because it said tyler in huge letters] and I just felt so wrapped up in goodness warmth and happiness and it was such a good contrast to friday and saturday when I thought I'd wither away from helplessness.
and then today was rushed and I was feeling almost like it was a bad day but then I saw him and we went and got hot chocolate and he just made me smile so big and I'm absolutely in love with him and I love just sitting there doing a crossword with him laughing at clues I fill in incorrectly and feeling his hand on my leg squeezing it every now and then and it reminded me of wiffles when she slept on top of me last night and she kneaded my back with her paws and I wanted nothing more than to curl up with him because it's been one heck of a long weekend and then tomorrow is valentines day and he said he was going to cook me dinner and he was going to surprise me and it was going to be so delicious and I was so excited and I emailed lindsey to tell her that my ankle was still unstable so I wanted to skip practice tomorrow because I wanted to get things done and just relax but I'll go on a long run during the day and she had told me at the beginning of the semester that I could take charliss days if I needed to and she emailed me back saying "hey, yeah, that's too bad your ankle still hurts, but you can't miss practice, come from 8:30-10:00" and I said fuck you lindsey except I didn't because it sounds weird for fuck to come out of my mouth but I'm so pissed off at her and I was going to email her back saying, no, I really need to do other things for myself when I checked my other email and she had sent an email to the ENTIRE LISTSERV saying "yeah, it's hard to come to practice less than six hours a week of practice and get everything done, but learn to manage your time. just do it. and come to practice" and how the hell do you respond to that so valentines day has to be put off until wednesday and there's no way in hell she's getting me to go to the track work out on wednesday night because you took my valentines day you're NOT taking my make up valentines day.
and yeah, it's just a day with a fancy title attached to it but it was going to be so nice and it would have been perfect and I'm in love and I just want to spend a night with my boy.
and I know he's disappointed but I don't know what else to do, what else to say to her without her hating me for the rest of the season. I'm definitely not going for a run tomorrow. I think instead I'll go visit him at lunch and bring him something special to make up for stupid people who I can't figure out how to stand up to.
now, to bed early for me so I can sleep off this headache Mon, Jan. 30th, 2006, 11:25 pm
I wish I could fall asleep to the rain tonight. I wish I were in a place where I could hear the rain, and not just as it dripdrops onto a metal air conditioner stuck out my window that keeps me from ever being able to open it.
or maybe in a hammock where I could rock myself into a deep sleep, though I'd probably fall out. perhaps I'm safest with curling up in a bed with a few stuffed animals.
yesterday was a clumsy day. I got two paper cuts, one in lab right after they'd told us how if we get a tiny cut or a splinter of glass in us or something that we need to tell our TA so he can write up the paperwork. I got a bandaid without the extra paperwork, though, because I promised not to sue.
best part of my day: I got a duck! and it goes "aflac....aflac....AFLAC!" I went to sleep with it under my arm and at one point when I rolled over to get up I pushed too hard on it and so I heard this muffled noise beneath my blankets. it's the softest thing ever, though. it might work as a temporary substitute for a cat.
I didn't quite realize how far behind I am until last night, or rather, early this morning. I'm like 4 chapters behind in our biology book, I haven't started my chemistry for chapter 11, and I have an environmental project due monday that I have half the information for. I guess today will be my work day. we'll see how that goes. plus I need to see a video for environmental. but I can do that tuesday since I have no class! after 10:45. it's looking like I really will need tuesday to be my catch up day.
so far I like chem lab, but that might just be because we got out super early. but I don't think the lab reports will be too too bad. you don't need five million page lab reports, short ones will suffice. plus I thought it was really weird in chem 21 when they had a lab report template and you simply fill in the blanks.
I hope it doesn't rain on sunday.
edit: dude, page 5 of the independent. I totally saw that statue and it's creepycreepycreepy. that's kind of cool. Tue, Jan. 24th, 2006, 11:30 pm
dude, did you know how many freakin' timezones this thing has for the US?! it's like 8. I swear, we're not that big and indiana does not have two timezones in it. but, for rachael, I thought I'd contribute this:
dear livejournal,
thank you for wasting all my precious time so now it's late and I still need to take a shower and I have to get up and go to biology tomorrow but I dropped my biology lab! because I don't want to dissect pigs. but now I'll be tired when I get to laugh in class at all the other people who are still taking lab.
love,
chaRliss Tue, Jan. 24th, 2006, 10:45 pm
let me just tell you naysayers that my flowers will SURVIVE and be PRETTIFUL and there will be happy bunnies. lots of happy bunnies. very fluffy bunnies. but not as fluffy as the ones that rachael had in her lj earlier. those were too fluffy.
but, please, I'd really like it if on tuesdays someone would take it upon themselves to be the person to make sure charliss doesn't eat anything more than a banana after 5:00. I'd appreciate it greatly. and so would my stomach.
peace up, atown down. not A-town, but atown. like atop, but atown.
maybe I should sleep. maaaaaaaaybe. but I'm not tired and my stomach's slooshy.
wheeeeeeeee Tue, Jan. 24th, 2006, 06:40 pm
the daffodils are coming up. and we still have a week of january left. what's up with that? at least I'll get some pretty flowers soon. Fri, Jan. 20th, 2006, 10:09 am
achey-breaky
week one, down. well, I have two more classes and some people to discuss money with before the week is over, but it's so close I can smell it. three practices finished with my body feeling remarkably well, minus my knee which is so stiff it hurts to bend it. the cherry pits help a ton and I'm thinking my room might have to start smelling perpetually of tiger balm.
labs start next week. I had gotten very used to school without them. lazy tuesdays and thursdays, rather than a two or three hour break in which I'm probably anxiously trying to finish writing something up for one or both labs. and I volunteered to be part of a group in environmental that is doing a conference on world hunger that's due on the 30th. of january. and I really don't know what I'm supposed to be doing. I guess we'll figure out monday and hurry hurry hurry to do something about it. at least it'll be over early on so I don't have to freak out about it while I'm in California or Texas.
waking up this morning was hard, it takes me a while to wind down after practice until 12:15 so I couldn't fall asleep in a decent time period. [I did, however, find out that I can indeed run a 2.25 hour practice after a twenty five minute run. with sprints at the end. I feel pretty good about that]
I kind of want to collapse at 9:30 tonight, but I know I won't because there are people to be seen and movies to be watched and after 9 licenses to be taken advantage of.
I really like environmental, though. we're reading an interesting book and good articles and class doesn't even seem like class because he comes in and talks about a thing or two and we spend the rest of the time discussing.
this'll be a good semester, if I live through it. definitely taking more credit hours in the fall and chilling out in the spring. whoa boy.
mmm cherry pits need more heat. |
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